Multiple-gestation pregnancies after assisted reproductive technology treatment: Population trends and future directions

Women's Health

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 301-307

  Schieve, Laura A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Embryo transfer; Multiple birth; Multiple gestation; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREDICTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK FACTOR; TWIN PREGNANCY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 34248669885     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17455057.3.3.301     Document Type: Article

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